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From: Peter Rye
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00

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"Austin Wilson" <awilson@nospam.connectivity.net.au> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I would like to print out a number of the online man pages for offline
> reading.  Is there a command to do this.

If you have the ability to print PostScript, the easiest way is to use:
man -t <man page> | lpr
You might want to redirect the output to a file before printing.

If you want plain ascii text, you might try the following:
groff -man -Tascii /path/to/manpage.file | col -b | lpr

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